[there's a lot going on here. these are a bunch of people taichi doesn't recognize, but it isn't hard to guess who they may be. it's the people that have been working with lucretia, he thinks, and he can see why they wouldn't normally be the kind to obviously work together. hearing about the different cycles is wild, and he has many questions...
...but then it's the end that leaves him confused. how does a person sing static? why could some of them hear but the others couldn't? why are lucretia and barry the only ones who remember, and what the hell is a voidfish?
when he pulls himself free from the memory he takes a moment to digest it.]
...did you ever realize why you were the only two to remember the song?
...we did, or-- I did. It wasn't too difficult to figure out that Barry was able to remember it because he was a lich; it seems the voidfish's effect on others' memories doesn't extend to the dead, or the-- living dead, as the case may be.
[she pauses, there, before continuing.]
If a living person ingests the voidfish's ichor, however, which I assure you happened completely accidentally-- they become immune, too. They'll remember anything that was being suppressed from their memory, and it can't erase information from them after they've been inoculated.
[and she opens up her notebook to start sketching, there, while she explains.]
It's a type of creature that we found on one of the worlds we visited, and we learned that they have the capability both to absorb and delete information and to broadcast it back out should they decide to do so. They lived in a particular cave on that world, and while visiting it, some of the larger ones-- I guess they thought it would be fun to sort of give me the Fantasy Sea World experience there and splashed me with water from their pool. Doesn't taste great, for the record.
I really doubt creepy fish water's meant to taste good. [he's looking over her shoulder as she sketches though.]
What do you mean it can broadcast it back out? Does it broadcast it back in the right order, or is it scrambled up since it can absorb and delete stuff?
[stop they love their information devouring child. but what she's drawing looks like a large jellyfish with a multitude of tendrils, and as she darkens areas and sketches in parts of the bell, what seems sort of like a galaxy takes shape within it.]
Nor does it really work that way, it's more-- individual pieces. It hasn't actually done this in... decades, at this point, but in the world where we found them, no one truly knew they existed. It was nearly impossible to enter their cave, but conservatories from surrounding kingdoms would... more or less make offerings to this cave, because of the phenomenon the voidfish produced. They would give them a song, or a painting, or any other form of art piece, and it would be immediately deleted... but if the voidfish chose to, they would then broadcast the piece out and implant it in the memory of everyone in that world. Not just the people who were there, or knew of the submission.
Kind of like a prophecy then? [why's it a jellyfish? he's still watching but he seems to understand enough.] Or something valuable for people to share for years to come.
We know the world it originated from, but-- only one of them came with us, and it was a child at the time. There was very limited time to study them as a group.
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...but then it's the end that leaves him confused. how does a person sing static? why could some of them hear but the others couldn't? why are lucretia and barry the only ones who remember, and what the hell is a voidfish?
when he pulls himself free from the memory he takes a moment to digest it.]
...did you ever realize why you were the only two to remember the song?
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[she pauses, there, before continuing.]
If a living person ingests the voidfish's ichor, however, which I assure you happened completely accidentally-- they become immune, too. They'll remember anything that was being suppressed from their memory, and it can't erase information from them after they've been inoculated.
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[he would also like to know why barry is a zombie, but one question at a time.]
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[and she opens up her notebook to start sketching, there, while she explains.]
It's a type of creature that we found on one of the worlds we visited, and we learned that they have the capability both to absorb and delete information and to broadcast it back out should they decide to do so. They lived in a particular cave on that world, and while visiting it, some of the larger ones-- I guess they thought it would be fun to sort of give me the Fantasy Sea World experience there and splashed me with water from their pool. Doesn't taste great, for the record.
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What do you mean it can broadcast it back out? Does it broadcast it back in the right order, or is it scrambled up since it can absorb and delete stuff?
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[stop they love their information devouring child. but what she's drawing looks like a large jellyfish with a multitude of tendrils, and as she darkens areas and sketches in parts of the bell, what seems sort of like a galaxy takes shape within it.]
Nor does it really work that way, it's more-- individual pieces. It hasn't actually done this in... decades, at this point, but in the world where we found them, no one truly knew they existed. It was nearly impossible to enter their cave, but conservatories from surrounding kingdoms would... more or less make offerings to this cave, because of the phenomenon the voidfish produced. They would give them a song, or a painting, or any other form of art piece, and it would be immediately deleted... but if the voidfish chose to, they would then broadcast the piece out and implant it in the memory of everyone in that world. Not just the people who were there, or knew of the submission.
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Nobody knows where it came from or anything?
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